TUB
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
tub
n 1: a relatively large open container that you fill with water
and use to wash the body [syn: {bathtub}, {bathing tub},
{bath}, {tub}]
2: a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids [syn:
{tub}, {vat}]
3: the amount that a tub will hold; "a tub of water" [syn:
{tub}, {tubful}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tub \Tub\, n. [OE. tubbe; of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. LG.
tubbe, D. tobbe.]
1. An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and
hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin,
usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes.
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2. The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity;
as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1
cwt., etc.
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3. Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of
pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely
or opprobriously.
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All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and
some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and
holding forth. --South.
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4. A sweating in a tub; a tub fast. [Obs.] --Shak.
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5. A small cask; as, a tub of gin.
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6. A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft;
-- so called by miners.
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{Tub fast}, an old mode of treatment for the venereal
disease, by sweating in a close place, or tub, and
fasting. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Tub wheel}, a horizontal water wheel, usually in the form of
a short cylinder, to the circumference of which spiral
vanes or floats, placed radially, are attached, turned by
the impact of one or more streams of water, conducted so
as to strike against the floats in the direction of a
tangent to the cylinder.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
136 Moby Thesaurus words for "tub":
Finnish bath, Japanese bath, Russian bath, Swedish bath,
Turkish bath, aquamanile, argosy, auto, autocar,
automatic dishwasher, automobile, baptize, bark, basin, bath,
bathe, bathtub, bidet, blimp, boat, bottom, bowl, bucket, buggy,
bus, car, catch basin, cereal bowl, cistern, cold shower, craft,
crate, dishpan, dishwasher, douche, dumpling, ewer, fatty,
finger bowl, flush, flush out, gargle, gravy boat, heap, heavy,
heavyweight, hip bath, hippo, holystone, hooker, hulk, hull,
hummum, irrigate, jalopy, keel, kitchen sink, lather, launder,
lavabo, lavatory, lave, leviathan, lump, machine, mop, mop up,
motor, motor vehicle, motorcar, motorized vehicle, needle bath,
packet, piscina, plunge bath, porringer, potbelly, punch bowl,
rinse, rinse out, ritually immerse, roly-poly, salad bowl,
sauce boat, sauna, sauna bath, scour, scrub, scrub up, shampoo,
ship, shower, shower bath, shower curtain, shower head,
shower room, shower stall, showers, sink, sitz bath, sluice,
sluice out, soap, sponge, sponge bath, swab, swagbelly, sweat bath,
syringe, terrine, toivel, trough, tub of lard, tun, tureen, vat,
vessel, voiture, wash, wash barrel, wash boiler, wash out, wash up,
washbasin, washbowl, washdish, washer, washing machine,
washing pot, washpot, washstand, washtub, watercraft, wheels,
whirlpool bath, wreck
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